CP3110 - Fundamentals of Software Engineering

Credit points:	03
Year:	2009
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	Discipline of Information Technology (pre 2009)

Software specification; formal methods; software design; programming environments; software validation; software management; project management.

Learning Outcomes

• analyse the requirements for a software system and produce a software design (including user interface) from requirements;
• appreciate the benefits and difficulties of performing software engineering in a group, including the development of requirements and design documents and interaction with a client;
• understand how reliability, reusability, verification and validation are vital concerns for any software engineering effort;
• understand the importance of software engineering to computer science and the most important general approaches to structuring the software production process;
• understand the important issues for managing and supporting the software engineering process at both the group and individual level.

Prerequisites:

CP2004

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 28-Aug-2009
Coord/Lect:	Dr Dmitry Konovalov.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 13 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40%); tutorial attendance and participation (20%); project (40%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 28-Aug-2009
Coordinator:	Dr Dmitry Konovalov
Lecturer:	Dr Jason Holdsworth.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 13 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40%); tutorial attendance and participation (20%); project (40%).
Beijing UT, Internal, Study Period 61
Census Date 20-Feb-2009
Coordinator:	Dr Dmitry Konovalov
Lecturer:	Mr Chris Christensen.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 13 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40%); tutorial attendance and participation (20%); project (40%).

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